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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?
(a) A month.
(b) 60 days.
(c) One year.
(d) Four weeks.

2. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?
(a) Roger Clemens.
(b) Gary Carter.
(c) Robin Ventura.
(d) Pedro Martinez.

3. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?
(a) For writing a book about literature.
(b) For suggesting that ethnic languages be left alone.
(c) For writing a book about language.
(d) For suggesting the restoration of the letter "yat" to the Russian language.

4. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?
(a) Bob Protexter.
(b) Alex Pryor.
(c) David Kauffman.
(d) Richard Spooner.

5. What sport was popular in the Soviet Union in the seventies?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Football.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Baseball.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the official indoctrination into the Soviet dogma begin?

2. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?

3. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?

4. What happened to the Eveni once they were herded into villages by the Soviets?

5. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?

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